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I'm surprised how oblivious Mark Lane is to the obvious fairy tale nature of the official account of 9/11. As soon as he went off on his "real terrorists" who "attacked New York City," and what a great job the CIA is doing, I couldn't listen anymore (broadcast of May 30, 2012). One would think that someone as intimate with the facts of the Kennedy assassination as Lane is would be the first to smell a rat. Anyone have the same reaction? Any clues as to why the departmentalization vis-a-vis the spooks?

…Further, it had been alleged that because Walden would not agree to sign an affidavit identifying Ray as the assassin, even though she was offered a $100,000 reward to do so, she was threatened by an FBI agent and a few days later arrested by Memphis police and taken to the mental ward of John Gaston Hospital. Three weeks later, the allegation continues, she was taken by armed guards to Western State Mental Hospital in Bolivar, Tenn., and committed…

But that was just in 1968. During the time of the HSCA, Lane supposedly broke her out of the hospital and then attempted to take her down to Jonestown using a false passport. See the last article on the following page:

How the Peoples Temple cult leader ensnared Harvey Milk and other progressive iconsBy David TalbotLeft: Former San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk. Right: The Rev. Jim Jones, pastor of Peoples Temple in San Francisco (Credit: AP)

“Season of the Witch,” the new book by Salon founder David Talbot, tells the story of the wild and bloody birth of “San Francisco values.” The following excerpt – Part 1 in a three-part series -- recounts one of the darker dramas before the ultimate triumph of those values...